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gingerbread
In a culinary context, gingerbread is strongly associated with the winter season, specifically Christmas. It evokes feelings of warmth, nostalgia, and tradition. While it can refer to a soft cake, it most commonly refers to hard cookies or the elaborate "gingerbread house" tradition.
In architecture, "gingerbread" refers to highly decorative, scrolled wooden trim often found on Victorian-style houses. When used in this sense, the term can be neutral or slightly critical. If a designer describes a building as having "too much gingerbread," they mean it is over-decorated or gaudy, suggesting that the ornamentation is unnecessary and distracts from the actual structure of the building.
Meanings
Examples
The smell of fresh gingerbread filled the kitchen during the holidays.
I want to bake some gingerbread men for the school fair.
Let us decorate the gingerbread house with icing and candy.
This gingerbread cake is a bit too spicy for my taste.
I wonder if she likes gingerbread cookies with her tea.
The old Victorian cottage was adorned with intricate gingerbread trim.
Look at all that gingerbread detailing on the porch railing.
The architect decided to remove the excessive gingerbread from the facade.
Those gingerbread eaves give the house a whimsical appearance.
Those gingerbread eaves give the house a whimsical appearance.